dellyone is sitting on her floor, scrawling on stacks of paper. Occasionally
she zones out, only to snap out of it a few minutes later with a smirk
on her face followed by a slight giggle and "Excellent!"
Our view pans up to a nearby window through which the sun can be seen
shining and birds can be seen soaring in spectacular blue sky. As we
close in on the window, we notice something peculiar about the glass.
It has wire embedded in it, to prevent it from being broken. The view
shifts to the outside of the window, which is a part of an ivy-covered
brick wall. The shot pans back to show an old multistory building surrounded
by grassy lawns and towering oaks. There is a sign at the building's
entrance. It reads, "Gate Haven."
The shot now goes into the building through the main entrance, past
a reception area, through myriad halls and security checkpoints until
we see a man dressed in a white lab coat peering through the clear side
of a two-way mirror. The man is wearing a badge with the name "Dr.
Dolenz" printed in large, friendly letters." (The picture
on the badge can be found here: http://www.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/545/21301)
Dr. Dolenz is once again observing one of his most stubborn patients.
Through the glass, we can see dellyone, still sitting on the floor.
The door opened in the observation area and another man entered.
Dr. Dolenz: Ah, Dr. Kimble. Thank you for coming.
Dr. Kimble: No problem, it this the patient you mentioned?
DD: Yes, patient dellyone. She has problems relating to reality. She's
convinced that she's teaching a creative writing class in there.
Through the glass we see dellyone. She is now pacing about the room,
lecturing to her 'class': a bed, a soft chair, a ball of yarn, two plants,
stuffed animals, a Snickers bar, and several Marks-a-lot markers.
Through the speaker system, the doctors can hear her berating one of
the stuffed animals for handing in an assignment without first using
a spell-checker. Occasionally she stops to sip from a cup filled with
yellow liquid.
DK: So then her condition hasn't improved since we last spoke?
DD: Not at all, and I'm beginning to get concerned. She severely injured
Nurse Hutaff last week during an attempted sexual assault. After the
sedation wore off, she swore that she thought he was a "stuffed
yak."
DK: And those two stains on the floor?
DD: Those were Twinkies, two of her former students. On separate days
she, for lack of a better term, taunted each on and off throughout the
day. Then a few minutes before midnight, she flew into a rage, flinging
a barrage of insults and innuendoes at each before finally stomping
on them.
DK: That is disturbing behavior.
DD: Yes, and now I fear for my own safety, as she has named the ball
of yarn "Diesel Mickey Dolenz." It's an obvious reference
to me. Now she's going on about how the ball of yarn is a transvestite
and cheated on some sort of assignment.
DK: Should she even be allowed to have some of those items in there?
DD: I asked Dr. Gess about that. He didn't think she posed a danger
to her self, so he suggested that she be allowed to keep them. We I
did have to ask Jorge to remove the Lite Brite when she tried to play
"hide the light bulb" with patient Buckley. She got a nasty
burn before we could stop her. And I won't go into what she did when
the potato she thought was a furby apparently started to get a little
frisky. The orderlies were laughing about that for weeks.
dellyone was now ranting wildly. Goin on about video tapes and Garden
Weazles. Whenever she addressed the Snickers bar, though, she seemed
to "bleep" her own speech.
DK: Fascinating. I've only seen one other case of dementia this severe.
A schizophrenic patient of mine called himself RandomsEdge or RandomJudgement.
The only way we could find to calm him was to allow him to cover himself
in his own feces.
DD: Ugh! Thank God dellyone hasn't come to that, but there's more.
And it gets worse